Safari 5.1 Disaster.

I have a 2011 MacMini 2.5 i5 with 8gb Ram. Every-time i launch Safari i get the beach ball of death for at least 20 - 30 seconds. I have even done a fresh install of Lion and just upgraded to 10.7.1 do not install any other apps and it still happens. Would happen under 10.7.0 as well.

do a hard format on that driver before reinstalling Lion on it. make sure that you clean and format that drive a few times before installing your OS. then do a fresh install and apply all updates before using safari. i think the reason is files on the drive are not really getting erased when you install Lion and you end up with different file version for the same file.

do a hard format on that driver before reinstalling Lion on it. make sure that you clean and format that drive a few times before installing your OS. then do a fresh install and apply all updates before using safari. i think the reason is files on the drive are not really getting erased when you install Lion and you end up with different file version for the same file.

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Formatted the drive multiple times including a 3 pass. Seems to make no difference.

Just have to keep Safari open all the time for now. I don't want to use any other browser in my opinion they are all pale compared to Safari.

Just a strange issue doesn't happen on any other mac of mine.

It also happens if i boot into Lion from an external FW800 HDD Safari beach balls for a good 20 seconds when launching.

Wont be formatting anymore since every time i re install Lion it's another 4 gb download when you have the tiny quotas we have here in Australia it all adds up.

you should make a USB bootable install key. make the whole process way less stressful. maybe some file are getting corrupted while downloading them but i highly doubt it, since you already tried it more than once. but it seams like a software problem more than hardware, as the system is not freezing, instead just hangs/reloads there. i would definitely try the USB method and install all updates before you try anything as usual.

I think i have found the problem. It seems to be a WD 1Tb external USB2 drive. When it's unplugged the issue does not happen when i reconnect it and launch Safari it beach balls again. I have 3 other 1tb FW800 HDD's and they don't cause the beach baling.

Every time i launch Safari the HHD wants to spin up and Safari beach balls till it's fully woken up.

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